dial. [The OE. word for ‘fork’ is ʓeaful; a parallel form *ʓifel might give evil in dialects.] (See quot.)
1642. in Cotton, Barnstaple (1890), 68. [The common sort] betooke themselves to armes … some with pikes, some with dunge Evells, some with great poles.
1863. Morton, Cycl. Agric. (E. D. S.), Evil, three-pronged fork.
